Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular, Knowles said, "I should like to reduce section size, even though that could have substantial financial consequences...
...section entitled, "Women Faculty," Knowles wrote that many statistics relating Harvard's percentage of tenured women are misleading because the University's system of granting tenure only to full professors is not taken into consideration...
...Senate forgoes the folksy approach. Ethics counsel Victor Baird answers each inquiry--what about Stella Staffer's social life?--with a citation: "That comes under Rule 35, Section C, and Interpretive Ruling No. 439," advises Baird. This allows nondisclosure "of gifts of an intimate nature," or where disclosure "would be embarrassing." Like that lingerie Moe Member sent...
...Also, if the CUE feedback was under 50 percent, that's good," he says. "It means most people bagged the section where they handed out the forms...
Alas. I've checked the Linguistics section of Courses of Instruction, and found not one mention of academese, professor-speak or anything of the like. Among my most troubling questions: What does it mean to "inform the question"? I didn't know questions were the kinds of things that get informed. "Hey, there's an emergency, inform the doctor." "Quick, there's an answer, inform the question." That just doesn't seem right. Who decided that every concept, idea and notion was going to be either "somewhat intuitive" or "rather counter-intuitive?" As far as I can tell, these...